Artist-expert talk
with Younes Ben Slimane (artist-in-residence at philomena+) and Dr. Gerhard Zsutty (director of the Brick Museum in Vienna)
Friday, 20/09/2024, 5 pm
Venue: philomena+, Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna
Younes Ben Slimane und Dr. Gerhard Zsutty im Wiener Ziegelmuseum, photo: Christine Bruckbauer
Younes Ben Slimane talks to Dr. Gerhard Zsutty about the birth of the brick, and the evolution of brick production in different regions. Together they present and explain certain symbols and signs on the bricks. In doing so, they discover many cultural similarities.
The talk takes place in the context of the exhibition Sense of Touch, a collaborative project by Younes Ben Slimane, Ava Binta Giallo, and Verena Schneider.
artist & expert
is a Tunisian architect, filmmaker, and visual artist. He studied architecture at the École nationale d’architecture et d’urbanisme (ENAU) and film at Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains. Working through film, video, photography, drawing and installation, Younes Ben Slimane establishes a permanent dialogue between architecture and visual arts, where different mediums coexist and reflect each other’s potentialities and limitations. His films have been selected in international festivals such as Locarno Film Festival and cph:dox. His work has been exhibited at the Mucem in Marseille, Solar -Galeria de Arte Cinemática in Vila do conde and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje. At the beginning of this year, he realised the solo exhibition Images de Tunisie at the Zaha Hadid Foundation in London.
DR. GERHARD ZSUTTY
has been collecting bricks since he was 6 years old. His first treasure trove was the rubble of the Second World War. He has been running the Vienna Brick Museum in Penzing for 40 years, archiving them and researching their origins. Some of the mysterious symbols that have been imprinted into the wet clay can help. Today Zsutty, who worked abroad as a geologist and paleontologist for a long time, can read many of these signs.
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